Ghost of You ♡ LRH

39 - Back Home

And no matter where we go

We always find our way back home

Back Home – Andy Grammer

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Aria

It took everything in me to continue pretending to be asleep. A few moments ago, I was lulled awake by the feeling of lips on my skin. Soft kisses were being peppered all across my face. "Come on angel, wake up." Luke whispered against the skin of my throat. Somehow I had managed to convince him that I was still asleep. I just wanted a few more moments of this blissful peace before our busy day.

My charade was broken when he attached his lips to that sensitive spot just by my ear. A gasp slipped past my lips as my hands instantly wound themselves in his hair. He smirked against my skin at the reaction. "Good morning baby."

"Good morning dear." Luke pulled back so that he was hovering over me. In the early morning light, he looked like an absolute angel, the glow around him casting him in an ethereal glow. "You know I could get used to waking up like this every morning."

"Your wish is my command," he leaned down and placed a slow kiss on my forehead. "Unfortunately though, we have a plane to catch and don't have much time to waste thanks to someone sleeping in."

Jokingly, I shoved his shoulder causing him to flop onto the bed next to me. "It's not my fault someone wore me out last night."

Luke's arms snaked around my waist and pulled me flush against him. I giggled as he nuzzled into my neck, squeezing me tight against him. "Mmh, are you complaining baby? You sure as hell weren't last night."

"Luke." His name came out as a cross between a whine and a moan as he started to attack my neck again.

"As much as I would love to continue this baby, you deserve to be thoroughly ravished every time and I don't have the time to go slow with you right now." With one final lingering kiss, he pulled away. I instantly felt chilled from the lack of his presence. He came around to my side of the bed, his hand outstretched towards me. "Come on baby, it's time to go home."

I let Luke pull me out of bed and into the bathroom. He ran over to the shower, turned on the knobs before stalking back over to me. "Arms up baby," he ordered. He pulled my shirt, well technically his, off my body before kneeling before me. Without breaking eye contact, he dragged my underwear down my legs. "My beautiful fiancé."

I hooked a finger under his chin and used that leverage to drag him up. "My turn." My hands slid across the bare skin of his torso as I drug his own shirt over his head. Just as I bent to take down his pants, hands shot out to stop me.

"If you do that darling, we may do more than just shower and we don't have time for that. Now get your sexy little ass in there before you tempt me further." I yelped slightly when he smacked my ass as I walked away. Turning to look back around at him, he was watching me walk away with a smirk.

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Security rushed Luke and I through the airport. The warm Australian air surrounded me in an embrace that was eerily familiar. 10 years ago, I left this country for what I thought was for good. Any time I pictured coming back here, it was always me alone. Maybe that's what has always deterred me from coming back, the thought of returning to the land where I had some of my best memories and where I lost everything.

Facing those memories all alone would have been impossible. But I am not alone. I have my stunning fiancé gripping my hand like my life depended on it. I am going to surprise my second family, a family that has loved me just as much as their own children.